NEWS

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CFTC Talks EP064: Christopher Ehrman
"The Director of the CFTC's Whistleblower Office, Christopher Ehrman, discussed recent awards of $45 million and how they contribute to trust in the financial markets.
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The CFTC Granted $45 Million In Whistleblower Rewards Last Month
"The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced a new series of whistleblower awards totalling over $45 million on Thursday, August 2. “The awards demonstrate the growing success of the CFTC’s Whistleblower Program, in particular the increasing volume and complexity of incoming whistleblower submissions,” an official statement from the Commission reads.
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Within one week, the CFTC issued two awards to whistleblowers, one in the amount of $30M and another in the amount of $70,000. Although the orders are fairly sparse, they provide some important clues as to how the CFTC determines the amount of a CFTC whistleblower award (the percentage of the monetary sanctions collected in the covered judicial or administrative action that the CFTC awards the whistleblower).

CFTC Announces First Whistleblower Award To A Foreign Whistleblower
"The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced an award of over $70,000 to a whistleblower who significantly contributed to an ongoing CFTC investigation and led the CFTC to a successful settlement. The award is the first made by the CFTC’s Whistleblower Program to a whistleblower living in a foreign country and the sixth award to a whistleblower who provided valuable information about violations of the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA).<
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CFTC Gives 1st Overseas Whistleblower Award
"The U.S. Commodity Futures Exchange Commission has awarded a whistleblower bounty to a foreign resident for the first time, the agency announced on Monday, days after handing out its largest award to date.
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CFTC Makes Record USD 30M Whistleblower Award
"The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced an award of approximately USD30 million to a whistleblower who voluntarily provided key original information that led to a successful enforcement action.
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CFTC Announces Its Largest Ever Whistleblower Award of Approximately $30 Million
"The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced an award of approximately $30 million to a whistleblower who voluntarily provided key original information that led to a successful enforcement action. The award is the largest award made by the CFTC’s Whistleblower Program to date and is the fifth award made by the program.
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Largest Award Issued in Commodity Fraud Case
"The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) today announced its largest whistleblower award to-date in a commodity fraud case. According to the Commission, it issued “an award of approximately $30 million to a whistleblower who voluntarily provided key original information that led to a successful enforcement action”
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CFTC Strengthens Rules to Protect Whistleblowers
"The primary US commodities regulator, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said on Monday that it has approved rule changes to bolster protections for whistleblowers and improve its process for reviewing claims...."

CFTC Pays $240,000 to First Whistleblower
"The acting chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said Tuesday the agency will make its first award to a whistleblower under the program created by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010...."